Nights in Rodanthe is a 2008 American romantic drama film. It is an adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' 2002 novel. The film stars Richard Gere and Diane Lane in their third screen collaboration after The Cotton Club (1984) and Unfaithful (2002). Lonely, divorced surgeon Paul Flanner travels to the remote island town, Rodanthe, to make amends to the husband of a patient who died on the operating table for a routine procedure, where he sparks up a romance with Adrienne Wills, the unhappily married woman looking after his North Carolina inn.